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E, W. D1X0N, WASHING-MACHINE.

Patented Mar. 2, 1886..

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ELLIS W. DIXON, OF YAKIMA, WASHINGTON TERRITORY.

WASHING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 337,136, dated March 2, i886.

Application filed March 31, 1885. Serial No. 160,792. (Model.)

.To @ZZ whom, r3 may concern,.-

Be itA known that I, ELLIS lV. DIXON, of Yakima, county of Yakima,Washington Territory, have invented a new and- Improved Washing-Machine, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in that class of washingmachines provided Wit-h swinging or rocking rubbers.

The invention consists in the construction and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, and specifically pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification', in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is alongitudinal sectional elevation of my improved washing-machine, and Fig. 2 is a cross sectional elevation of the same-on the line w w, Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view showing the arrangement of the hook for holding the lever L.

On the sides of the tub or washing-box A the uprights B are secured, in the upper ends of which the shaft C is journaled, which eX- tends over the tub A. On the shaft two downwardly-projecting arms or bars, D, are rigidlyV mounted at their upper ends, and in their lower ends a shaft, E, is held, on which the side bars, F, of the rubber G are mounted to swing, the side bars, F, being united by the grooved rubber-bars F. The bottom rubber, H, consists of a frame pivoted in blocks H on the inner sides of the tub at the bottom to adapt the free end of the rubber, which is at one end of the boX, to be raised or lowered.

Rollers J are j ournaled in some suitable manner in the frameH, and the cross-piece -J at the swinging end of the rubber His connected by a link, K, with one end of an elbow-lever, L, pivoted on the inner surface of one end of the boX and provided with a handle, L. A hook,M, is provided on one side of the box, with which hook the handle L can be engaged.

The clothes are placed on thelower rubber, H, and are rubbed by means of the upper rubber, G.

The lower rubber, H, can be raised or lowered by means of the lever L, according to the quantity or bulk of the clothes being washed, or according to the pressure desired.

The upper rubber, G, is rocked to and fro, and at the same time pressed upon the clothes,

4which are thus thoroughly rubbed and cleaned.

The upper rubber can be dipped more orY less, according to the quantity of clothes in vthe tub or the pressure desired.

Having thus described my invention,I claim as new and desire to secure byLetters Patent- As an improved article of manufacture, a washing-machine consisting of the tub A,hav

'ing uprights B, the swinging arms D, pivotally connected to the upper ends of the uprights, the rubber G, having side bars, F,

pivotally connected to the lower ends of arms. 

